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Author: Dr. Xanthe Mallett Publisher: Edbury Press and Randon House Australia Pty Ltd. Copyright Year: 2014 ISBN: 978 0 85798 380 0 Review By: Suzanne Bozorth-Baines Book Synopsis: Child murder: A social taboo and one of the most abhorrent acts most of us can imagine. Meet the women found guilty of murdering their own children. …
Author: Hannah Kent Publisher: Picador Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Michaela Lobb Book Synopsis: In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnúsdóttir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of two men. Agnes is sent to wait out the time leading to her execution on the farm of District Officer Jón Jónsson, his …
Author: Lauren Beukes Publisher: Harper Collins Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Sue Turnbull Book Synopsis: Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit’s standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to …
Author: Sally Breen Publisher: Fourth Estate, an imprint of Harper Collins Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Nita Jaye Book Synopsis: An electrifying, neo-noir tale of identity theft, subterfuge and new beginnings, set in the dark shadows of the Gold Coast’s glittering high-rise strip … Jade, on the run from her past, arrives on the Gold …
Author: Louise Penny Publisher: Sphere Copyright Year: 2014 Review By: Sandra Nicholson Book Synopsis: Former Chief Inspector of Homicide, Armand Gamache, has found a peace he’d never imagined possible, away from the front line of the police and in the tranquil village of Three Pines. But when his friend Clara Morrow asks for help, he …
Author: Victoria Heywood Publisher: Five Mile Press Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Joyce Marshall Book Synopsis: All relationships face obstacles, but can romance really survive when there are prison bars between two people who love each other? What does it take to pledge your life to someone who may see out the rest of their …
Author: Fred Vargas Publisher: Vintage Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Sandra Nicholson Book Synopsis: ‘People will die,’ says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision: ghostly horsemen who target the most nefarious characters in Normandy. Since the middle ages there have …
Author: Sophie Loubiere Publisher: Trap Door Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Sandra Nicholson Book Synopsis: When the elderly Madame Préau returns to her own house after several years spent in a convalescent home, she immediately notices that the neighbourhood had changed. A new family has moved in next door and from her window she watches …
Author: Maurilia Meehan Publisher: Transit Lounge Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Sandra Nicholson Book Synopsis: Zac, a translator of Flaubert, can’t believe his luck. He ends up sleeping with Odette, a beautiful but capricious ceramic artist, and her best friend, Cicely, a talented knitter and author of an erotic novel. As well as an interest …
Author: Barbara Nadel Publisher: Headline Copyright Year: 2013 Review By: Sandra Nicholson Book Synopsis: When Inspector CetinIkmen is invited to a murder mystery evening at one of Istanbul’s most exclusive hotels, he suddenly finds himself embroiled in a deadly game of life imitating art. Halfway through the evening, one of the actors is found actually …